Paper-filing device.



' P. H. YAWMAN. PAPER FILING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 2, 1905. RENEWED AUG. 18, 1908.

Patented Apr. 13, 1909.

THE NORRIS PETERS cm, WA

UNITE PHILIP H. YAWMAN, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO YAWMAN & ERBE MANU- FACTURING COMPANY, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

PAPER-FILING DEVICE.

Patented April 13, 1969.

Application filed August 2, 1905, Serial No. 272,285. Renewed August 18, 1908. Serial No. ee9,158.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIP H. YAWMAN, of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State 1 of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper-Filing Devices; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the specification, and to the referencenumerals marked thereon.

My present invention relates to improvements in filing devices such as are employed for temporarily binding and securing documents, letters and other papers in such a way that convenient reference may be made thereto, and letters and papers may be con veniently added or removed at any time, and the object of my invention is to provide such a device employing impaling pins to receive the letters or papers and movable transfer wires upon which the papers are received in order to enable access to be had to letters or papers beneath them, these Wires being pro vided with improved means whereby they are caused to operate simultaneously while being moved into and out of cooperative relation With the impaling pins for the purpose of enabling the letters or other papers to be applied or removed therefrom.

To these and other ends the invention consists in certain improvements and combinations of parts all as will be hereinafter more fully described, the novel features being pointed out in the claims at the end of the specification.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a plan view of a filing device constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view on the line 22 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan View of the filing device, Figs. 1 and 5 represent sections on the line of Fig. 2, the parts being shown respectively in the positions they would occupy when the pins are in cooperative relation with the impaling pins, and when they are disengaged therefrom; and Fig. 6 represents a section on the line 6-6 of Fig. l.

Similar reference numerals in the several figures indicate similar parts.

The present embodiment of my invention comprises a base plate 1 composed preferably of sheet material having a supporting eye 2 at one side thereof and at its opposite side are provided the receiving or impaling ins 3 and 1 which may be of any desired number although I prefer to employ two. The edges of the sheet are turned downwardly to form supporting flanges 4 that insure a true and uniform bearing upon the surface against which the file is secured. On the upper side of this base is arranged a casing 5 also preferably of sheet material, which in the present instance is formed separately, and provided with a plurality of relatively flat spurs or projections 6 which extend through corresponding elongated apertures in the base plate. These spurs project from the opposite side of the base plate but for a distance less than the width of the supporting flanges 41 so that while not contacting with the supporting surface to render the file unstable they may be conveniently secured by being twisted at their ends upon an aXis lying in the direction of their extent as shown in Fig. 3. This casing is provided with spherical raised portions 7 which on tend upwardly therefrom and are centrally apertured to form bearings 8, and opposite to these raised portions of the casing are formed the corresponding depressions 9 of the base plate, the said depressions having apertures 10 therein to form bearings, and into the spaced or separated bearings 8 and 10 thus formed in the casing and base plate respectively, the shanks of the transfer wires 11 and 12 are journaled, these wires being provided with the arched portions having their free ends formed to cooperate with the upper ends of the impaling pins 3 and i to form a smooth joint which will enable the passage of the papers from the in'ipaling pins to the transfer wires and vice versa, without liability of their catching or being torn. On the shanks of these transfer wires and arranged between the casing and base plate are the projections or enlargements 13 and 14 respectively and on these projecting por tions are forced the segmental pinions 15 and 16, the pinion 15 being attached to the wire 11 and the pinion 16 to the wire 12.

Cooperating with these pinions is a rack 17, the teeth of one end thereof cooperating with the pinion 15 at one side of the corresponding wire and the teeth at the opposite end thereof being offset and arranged to cooperate with the pinion 16 at the opposite side of the wire 12 so that reeiprocatory motion ol' the rack will cause the wires to rotate simultaneously in opposite directions. The teeth cooperating with the pinion 16 are extended so as to cooperate also with the teeth on the cam 18, the latter being journaled on the bearing 19 of the base plate and provided with a projection 20 arranged to cooperate with a laterally bent portion at the free end of a spring 21, the latter being secured in place by the lugs 22 and 23 of the base plate. The action of this spring operates to produce a pressure between its projecting portion and the projection of the cam, and consequently when the cam is moved to either side of an intermediate position, the spring will operate thereon to complete its motion. thereby yieldingly retaining the pins and wires either in or out of cooperative relation, as the case may be.

hen the transfer wires occupy the relative position shown in Fig. l, the pinions 15 and 16 thereon and the rack bar 17 cooperating therewith will occupy the relative positions shown in Fig. 4, at which time the cam 18 which also cooperates with the rack, will be operated upon by he spring 21 :to hold the Wires in cooperative relation with th impaling pins, and to normally resist forces tending-to disengage them. However, when the wires have been swung out of engagement with their respective pins, the rack bar 17 will be moved into the position shown in Fig. 5, and the cam 18 will be rotated until the projection 20 thereon is operated upon by the spring to retain the transfer wires in open position, or out of engagement with their respective pins to enable papers to be applied or removed from the pins.

It is generally preferable to so form the casing .5 that its inner walls serve as guides for maintaining the proper cooperation of the rack and pinions .during their operation, a

substantially rectangular easing being used to advantage for this reason, and it is preferable ;to fit the rack, cam and spring to the base plate, as this facilitates their assembling with the casing removed.

A filing device of this characterconstructed inaccordance with my invention may be inexpensively constructed by punching and forming all of the parts by dies from sheet material, and as the various parts require no subsequent fitting and are simply set together without the necessity of making-connections between them, the assembling may be performed very rapidly and by a simple method.

I claim as my invention:

'1. In a paper filing device, the combination with the cooperatively arranged pins and transfer wires, 01 rack and pinion devices forsimultaneously moving the pins and wires into and out of cooperative relation, and a rotatable .cain having teeth cooperating with those 01' the rack for retaining the pins and wires in or out of cooperative relation.

2. In a paper filing device, the combination with the cooperatively arranged pins and transfer wires, of rack and pinion devices 'l'or simultaneously operating the pins and wires into and out of cooperative relation, a rotatable cam cooperating with the rack and a spring operating on the cam to retain the pins and wires in or out of cooperative rela tion.

3. In a paper filing device, the combination with the receiving pins, and the rotatable transfer wires having portions arranged to cooperate with the pins, of pinions connected to the wires, a reciprocatory rack cooperating with the pinions, a pivoted cam rotated by the rack and having a projection thereon, and a spring cooperating with the projection of the cam and operating to retain the rack in two predetermined positions,

i. A paper filing device embodying a base plate composed oi sheet metal supporting the receiving pins and having depressed portions therein forming bearings, a casing formed to fit the base plate having raised portions therein to form bearings, transfer wires hav ing their shanks journaled in the bearings of the base plate and casing and having portions arranged to cooperate with the receiv,-

ing pins, radial projections formed on the wires between the depressed and raised hearing portions of the base and casing, and devices arranged between the casing and base plate and cooperating with said projections for operating the wires.

5. In a paper filing device, the combination with a base plate provided with irnpaling pins and with'a plurality of apertures, movable arches carried by the plate and cooperating with the pins and mechanism ar 'anged on the plate for controllingthe arches, of a housing for said mechanism comprising a sheet metal casing provided with a plurality of spurs or extensions projecting through the apertures in the base plate and secured upon the opposite side of the latter.

6. In a paper filing device, the combination witha base plate provided with im aling pins and with elongated. apertures, movable arches carried by the plate and cooperating with the pins and mechanism arranged on the plate and cooperating with the pins, of a housing for said mechanism comprising a sheet metal casing having a plurality of relatively flat spurs extending through the apertures in the base plate to project from the opposite 'lace thereof and secured by being twisted at their ends upon an axis lying in the direction of their extent.

7. In a paper filing device, the combination with asheet metal base plate having depending supporting flanges and provided with impaling pins, and with elongatedaper- 'tures, movable arches carried by the plate than the Width of the supporting flanges and secured by being twisted at their ends upon an axis lying in the direction of their extent. 10

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and cooperating with the pins and mechanisni arranged on the plate for controlling the arches, of a housing for said mechanism comprising a sheet metal casing having a plurali 5 ity of relatively fiat spurs extending through lVitnesses:

the apertures in the base plate to project G. WILLARD Biol-1,

from the opposite face thereof a distance less CLARENCE A. BATEMAN. 

